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Jerusalem diaries : in tense times / Judy Lash Balint.
Van Pelt Library DS119.76 .B35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balint, Judy Lash, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balint, Judy Lash, 1952-.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Jerusalem.
- Balint, Judy Lash, 1952---Diaries.
- Balint, Judy Lash.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hewlett, NY : Gefen Pub. House, 2001.
- Summary:
- Balint, a Jerusalem-based journalist, offers 55 diary-like commentaries on life in Israel between November 1998 and May 2001, as Israelis struggled to keep functioning under the intense pressures of terrorism inflicted on their citizenry. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Contents:
- Is Real Security at Hand for Israelis? 9
- Wake Up Call 12
- Rachel Still Weeps 16
- Stepping Off the Roller Coaster 18
- Gas Masks Back in the Closet? 21
- Golan Rally Sends Strong Message to Ehud Barak 24
- Winter Time Jerusalem Observations 27
- Mourning? Not Me, Not Yet 29
- Har Habayit B'Yadeynu (The Temple Mount is in Our Hands) 31
- Millennium Countdown 34
- Inside the Orient House 36
- Jerusalem Reclamation 39
- Bet Lechem 41
- Off Limits 44
- The Rally That Came Too Late 46
- Dor Hemshech (The Continuing Generation) 49
- An Israeli Museum Becomes Politically Correct 52
- Letter from the Gaza Strip 55
- Shabbat with the Sharanskys 59
- All in a Jerusalem Day 63
- Face of the New Mideast War 65
- Day of Rage 68
- Erev Yom Kippur 70
- It Goes On 73
- Peeling Potatoes 78
- Condolence Call 80
- Communities Under Siege 83
- Simchat Torah and the War in Gilo 87
- Notes from the Front 92
- More Normal, Less Normal 95
- The Media War: Who is the Enemy? 98
- Now We're Really at the Front 101
- More than Just a Bar Mitzvah 103
- Mission Accomplished? 106
- Digging in For the Long Haul 108
- Jewish Pride or Trauma 112
- Escalation 117
- Enough! 120
- A Day in the Life 123
- On the Edge 126
- Celebrating the Zionist Festival 129
- The Spirit of the People 133
- Kol Yisrael Areivim, Zeh B'Zeh (All Jews are Responsible For One Another) 139
- Yerushalayim B'sakana (Jerusalem in Danger) 141
- Heading South Again 144
- The Shomron 150
- The Invincible Jerusalem 153
- Those Holy Walls 156
- Protection, Israel style 159
- Election Madness 163
- Decision Day 166
- Shalhevet's Funeral 169
- Journalists Behaving Badly 173
- Day of the Knitted Kipot 176
- Holding Up Under Fire 178.
- ISBN:
- 9652292710
- OCLC:
- 214986862
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